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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars 01 October 2019
The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science 26 September 2019
Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Over fifty scientists come together for MACODA 25 September 2019
In the week of 16 – 21 September, an international group of more than 50 scientists met at the Many Criteria Optimization and Decision Analysis (MACOD...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology 17 September 2019
State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition 10 September 2019
On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science 03 September 2019
With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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Gravitation Grant for innovative outlook on the social and ethical challenges of new technology 30 August 2019
Leading scientists in the field of the ethics and philosophy of technology are currently revising time-honoured key philosophical concepts such as aut...
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Gravitation Grant for combining human and artificial intelligence 30 August 2019
The project Hybrid Intelligence receives 19 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The consortium consists ...
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Fifty percent chance you've reacted to junk news at least once 22 August 2019
A new article, published by researchers from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics in the ...
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands 22 August 2019
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and...
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Summer school in China: extreme heat and the Chinese Silicon Valley 15 August 2019
Going to school during the summer holidays? Some of our students accepted the challenge. And they didn’t do that just around the corner. During their ...
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science 14 August 2019
Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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First SAILS Professor appointed 24 July 2019
Bart Custers was appointed Professor of Law and Data Science on the first of July. This makes him the first professor to be appointed for the SAILS pr...
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Children's stories as inspiration for an artificial brain 23 July 2019
Max van Duijn, Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), has been awarded a Veni grant for his research into c...
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How public money for science leads to new medicines 22 July 2019
Public funding for fundamental research is essential for innovation and the development of new medicines. This is demonstrated by Professor Science Ba...